Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit with the Kroger grocery chain. The job: unloading boxcars at 32? an hour. Jimmy and his co-workers got paid only for actual hours worked, though they had to stay close by the loading platforms for 12 to 15 hours a day. In 1932 Jimmy organized a strike. Gathering a six-man committee, he made his demands on the management just as a carload of strawberries and cantaloupes arrived at the warehouse. The company, faced with imminent spoilage of the fruit, quickly made peace. "It was only a small raise," says Hoffa, "but they gave us an insurance deal...
What is the engine inside Hoffa that keeps him running so hard? The coal biter's son says a lot about it himself. In Detroit's recent newspaper strike, "at 3 a.m. in the morning three editors came to see me, and we worked things out. I talked and they listened. Can you imagine how it feels to have men like that listen to reason? Did you ever hear of confidence? Did you ever hear of people accepting a man on his bond? At a meeting three weeks ago, I put out some pension checks for the first...
Last week a rubber-products company, a soft-drink bottling works and the national airline were shut down, bringing the strike total since last January to more than 175. Close to 5,000 employees of the government-owned telephone company voted to strike this week unless wages are boosted. Ranging from five minutes to five months, the strikes cost the country an estimated 6,200,000 man-hours and uncounted millions of dollars in productivity...
...editorials, e.g., an attack on President Eisenhower headed "Dopey Dwight," happily stepped up his press runs to 90,000 daily and 100,000 on Sunday and reported a sellout. The Boston-published Christian Science Monitor, which has a separate verbal contract with the mailers, was unaffected by the strike. After a 14-day interval in which it cautiously banned street sales within 30 miles of Boston, the Monitor last week resumed distribution in the city, but it did not have the press capacity to boost its normal newsstand quota...
...Detroit, after a weeklong, citywide newspaper strike, the independent Mailers' Union agreed to go back to work after Teamsters Union Vice President James R. Hoffa flew back from Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to negotiate a settlement. The mailers, locked in a jurisdictional dispute with the I.T.U., had closed all three Detroit papers with support from Hoffa's teamsters...